Paleontology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Steinhauer, Notebooks
Collection — Box Small Collections 8
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0358
Scope and Contents
A Bethlehem, Pa. minister and amateur geologist, Steinhauer's 165 page notebook of information and observations on fossils, particularly those found in coal measures is not dated, but tentatively ascribed to the period following his publication in the American Philsophical Society's Transactions, 1817 and before his death. The Academy's 1835 catalogue of the library describes this item as: "Steinhaur, MS. Geological Notes of the late Rev. Henry Steinhaur."
Dates:
1818-1826
Horace G. Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0976
Overview
Horace G. Richards (1906-1984) was a geologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia and an authority on the geologic formations of the Atlantic coastal plain. His research specialty focused on geology and paleontology of the Quaternary Period (approximately the past 1.8 million years), but his research interests also included Cenozoic mollusca, and marine Pleistocene geology and paleontology of the Atlantic coastal plain. Additionally, he studied climate change and coastal...
Dates:
1928-1984
Isaac Lea, Correspondence
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0452
Scope and Contents
Publisher, geologist, paleontologist and conchologist, Lea prepared his
first scientific paper for the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia in 1818. Nearly 300 scientific articles appeared above his
signature before 1876. He was President of the Academy from 1858-1863
and Dean of the Wistar Association from 1858-1863. He made two European
trips with his family, to attend scientific gatherings, one in 1832, the other
1852-53. Much of this correspondence pertains to...
Dates:
1818-69
Joseph Leidy Correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0001
Overview
Joseph Mellick Leidy (1823-1891), one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the Father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He was also an influential teacher of natural history and an expert in areas as diverse as entomology, geology and pathology. The Joseph Leidy Correspondence collection contains...
Dates:
1845-1913, undated
London Illustrated News issue featuring Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins dinosaurs
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-2012-061
Photo Album, Nunavut Paleontology Expeditions, 1999-2008
Collection — Box small accessions 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-006
Scope and Contents
Photo album of digital images; includes separate list of Personnel
Dates:
1999-2008
Richard Cowling Taylor, Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0361
Scope and Contents
An economic geologist and mining engineer of outstanding reputation, this Englishman came to America in about 1830. He published many scientific papers both in England and in the United States. His interests here were
especially in coal and his most important publication (754 p.), 'Statistics of Coal". A member of many scientific societies, he was elected to the Academy in 1832.The collection consists of four notebooks on mineralogy, geology and fossils; miscellaneous notes,...
Dates:
1815-49
Samuel Stehman Haldeman Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0073
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 704 letters addressed to Haldeman, Constantine Rafinesque and Thomas Say, with a letterbook of 22 letters written by Haldeman. In subject, the letters refer to paleontology, conchology, entomology, ichthyology, to Indian relics and to spelling reform. A letter from Leidy is illustrated and several of those written by Haldeman bear pencil sketches. In his letterbook is information about a proposed U. S. Naval Expedition to South America with J.
G. Strain, and...
Dates:
1830-1880